US Patent Issued to European Central Bank on July 15 for "Computer-implemented method for copy protection, data processing device and computer program product" (Italian, Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,780, issued on July 15, was assigned to European Central Bank (Frankfurt, Germany).

"Computer-implemented method for copy protection, data processing device and computer program product" was invented by Claudio Bellini (Rome), Martin Eichenberger (Zollikon, Switzerland) and Elisabeth Schulz (Frankfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for preventing unauthorized processing of a digital representation of at least a portion of a document, a device for data processing, and a computer program product are provided, wherein in particular the document is a banknote. The method comprises providing data, wh...